Human Race and Variation Flashcards
What is the fundamental assumption of separate human races?
It’s because human reproduction is a closed system
Why is the fundamental assumption of separate human races wrong?
Human reproduction is not closed: people intermix and gene flow all the time
What is a cline?
It describes the frequency of a trait of a group compared to another group
Why do health studies continue to use race to study?
They want to see health disparities and figure out biologically and socially why that happens
There is ____ _____ ____ to divide groups of humans because humans exist in ______
no clear way, a continuum
Why is there an idea of race in the first place?
Because humans love to tend to classify things
Why do bad bad Europeans justify racial groups?
So they can say that they are the best race, everyone else is below them.
